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born 1977 Nigeria
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September, 1977) is a Nigerian author and activist. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors that is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature."
Nigeria Academics Activists Authors Educators Also known as: Americanah
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"So true--when people see an absence of women in engineering, science and technology, then it becomes self-reinforcing."
Age is irrelevant in grief; at issue is not how old he was but how loved.
Notes on Grief (2021)
We teach girls shame. Close your legs, Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
It was something like pain and different from pain.
Zikora (2020)
"Greatness depends on where you are coming from."
Half of a yellow sun (2006)
I might not necessarily be worried about my physical safety but I think that other kinds of safety, emotional safety, mental safety, and those concern me, yes.
Cooking, by the way, is a very useful skill for a boy to have. I've never thought it made sense to leave such a crucial thing, the ability to nourish oneself, in the hands of others.
we now live in broad, settled, ideological tribes” which leads many young people to practise self-censorship.
a feminist is a man or a woman who says "Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it.
For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.
Notes on Grief (2021)
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
Gender matters. Men and women experience the world differently. Gender colors the way we experience the world. But we can change that.
A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you loved […] The tea was always too hot, always burned my tongue.”
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
I was going to say that maybe women are born with a cooking gene, until I remember that the majority of the famous cooks in the world, whom we give the fancy title of "chefs," are men.
We teach boys to be afraid of fear. We teach boys to be afraid of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian speak, "hard man!"
They grow up to be women who cannot see what they truly think, and they grow up - and this is the worst thing we do to girls - they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.
"There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair."
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
Americanah (2013)
If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about our sons' girlfriends. But our daughters' boyfriends? God forbid
I don’t think I’m more inherently likely to do domestic work, or childcare ... It doesn’t come pre-programmed in your vagina, right?
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